Several friends have asked (somewhat incredulously) how I managed to get home after last weekend’s Seattle Super Saunter. It was so easy and another highlight of the day: bus to Rainier Beach, light rail to UW, Lime glider along the Burke Gilman. Public transit is pretty great, actually.

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Good parenting skills are often just good interpersonal skills - investing in being a better parent invariably makes us better partners, friends and colleagues. A nice side benefit is this often requires developing better *intra*personal skills, improving our relationship with ourselves.

Love seeing this. There are also so many genuinely showy native plants - you don’t have to choose between garden aesthetics and supporting biodiversity and climate resilience.

Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action. I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on... Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧

Please consider supporting Alex, an award-winning journalist who deserves so much better than this.

“They are meant to kill coyotes...but they also kill endangered species, essential native predators, and countless beloved dogs, none of which can read warning signs. They have also poisoned countless people. It is only a matter of time until one kills a child.”

JFC. During an oil crisis, when EVs are a lifeline, Congress is about to *put a tax on EVs*. Spectacularly stupid.

Beyond this being bad for decarbonization, it adds to the injustice of EVs remaining a luxury for the relatively wealthy, who are least in need of the savings from not buying gas (esp in our self-inflicted oil crisis). Here in WA we’d now be looking at almost $400 a year in EV fees.

I'm going to collect a few reactions to this thread for comment, as it's an instructive moment in the politics of climate science (however niche). 🧵

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Amazing day joining 1,500 people in the Seattle Super Saunter, a celebration of pedestrianism, community and our beautiful city. A 24-mile walk across Seattle from north to south.

Every year now, the pre-monsoon heat (the hottest time of year in South Asia with temperatures well over 40°C) starts earlier & lasts longer - due to human-induced climate change - exposing 1billion people to deadly heat. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

Gender affirming care is life-saving care. Given the exceedingly low regret rate for GAC, it's hard to see how this clinic isn't intentioned to be weaponized against trans children and their families. Cis folks, we need to be loudly standing up for the trans community - this is so dangerous.

She sounded so extraordinary. Atmospheric sciences major with minors in music and philosophy. Gifted singer. Kind. It wouldn’t have been any less tragic had she been utterly ordinary but my god, what a light that man took from the world. I’m so sorry, Juniper.

So what now? If the students--all the students--are our charge, then we keep working and teaching. And in so doing we must celebrate Juniper's life. Must recognise that silence will neither honour her nor save the rest of us, that it won't save the institution. Advocacy must ring with pride.

We now know her name: Juniper Blessing. Her alleged murderer is now in custody and awaiting a charging decision, expected on Monday. Juniper was a graduate of the New Mexico School for the Arts and, active in the UW Chorale, already a soloist.

New job posting to join our team for an early career scientist(s) interested in the intersection of wildfire, electricity, insurance and resilience policy. If this sounds like you, please apply! If not, please share with your contacts. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/electri...

That so much of the West has little to no snowpack left is mind-boggling. "Snowpack, the western US’s largest non-man made reservoir, is already gone in many places...This year’s peak snowpack will be the new benchmark low for Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; there are no comparable years."

“The U.S. National Science Foundation X-Labs (NSF X-Labs) initiative is designed to launch and scale a new generation of organizations focused on independent research, development and innovation.” We have those, thanks, they’re called universities and national laboratories.

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Remarkable story of perseverance and a reminder of the need to address potential harms of green energy. Nearly $1 billion will go to a fish passage system allowing salmon to migrate past the dams that have powered Seattle at tremendous cost to the lands, livelihoods and cultures of local Tribes.

Extremely niche surfer take, but for Surfer Magazine to run an article about the coming El Niño that doesn't salivate over the potential for monster surf but instead focuses almost entirely on risk to human life feels like a significant inflection point.

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe has been relocating nuisance beavers to suitable habitat to support healthy ecosystems and build climate resilience. Beaver reintroduction was already one of my favorite climate adaptation strategies - the Cowlitz "Kit Cam" is an amazing climate comms addition (sound on!).

My heart breaks for the student, a 19-year old trans woman; for her family; for the LGBTQIA+ community at UW; and for all affected by this horrific loss. Trans people deserve to live without fear, free from the rhetoric and actions that fuel this kind of violence. She deserved so much better.

This part: “Disaffected and independent voters aren't angry at Dems due to missing moderate policies or bad talking points; rather, they're disgusted by a perceived lack of courage and clear values. Again, this argues for finding better ways to talk about climate more often.”

Please admire Pepper’s new booties - helping her feet recover from injury in style.

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Top 10 reasons why Democrats need to talk about climate change now: 🧵

if you can’t talk about climate and make it relevant to people’s lives, that seems like a you issue not a climate issue.

And if you like, focus on so the co-benefits of decarbonization! Better air and water quality, for example, in addition to freedom from fossil fuel price volatility! But that doesn’t mean you “don’t talk about climate”.

Lee Zeldin used to talk publicly about the importance of adapting to oncoming climate change. Now all efforts at adaptation are getting shut down.

Tonight’s sunset from the Salish Sea.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

This story haunts me and deserves every accolade - a climate tragedy in excruciating detail, told with overwhelming love and grief for people and place. It gives voice to so many other stories just like this that we'll never hear.

Spotted a Bald Eagle hunting a Hooded Merganser (small diving duck) at Seward Park in Seattle today, with the world’s first light rail on a floating bridge making a guest appearance in the distance. It was hard to not root for the merganser, but he was sorely outgunned, and eagles have to eat, too.

Hey fellow alumni — Cornell Board of Trustees: [email protected] Alumni Affairs: [email protected]

I realize this is not helpful, but yet again I'm reminded of the male friend who laughed (guffawed, really) at my belief that Roe could ever be overturned. I'm sure I'm not the only woman with memories like this that come roaring back each time they successfully chip away at our bodily autonomy.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

In case you needed to see a chicken having a spa day (vet’s orders, but who doesn’t love a warm bath).

Love seeing climate actions with multiple benefits! In addition to generating clean energy and reducing emissions, solar canals conserve water by reducing evaporation, can potentially reduce growth of costly aquatic weeds, and help redirect solar development from farmland and valuable habitat.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Post-Doc Position in Energy Modeling: My collaborator at SFU (not on Bsky) is hiring a post-doc for our joint project on modeling Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems for Canada. Come join the team. www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...